High Ram PC for Comsol Multiphysics simulation

If you really want to use 128GB of RAM, and I mean - really go that high on computations - then just putting in 128GB of DDR4 3000 is not gonna cut it IMO. The transfer rate and the CPU's computational capacity will become the main bottleneck, not the amount of RAM.

If you really wanna go that far, then might do something like this :

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type Item Price
CPU Intel Xeon E5-2620 V3 2.4GHz 6-Core Processor $399.99 @ SuperBiiz
CPU Intel Xeon E5-2620 V3 2.4GHz 6-Core Processor $399.99 @ SuperBiiz
CPU Cooler RAIJINTEK AIDOS BLACK 48.6 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler $19.99 @ Newegg
CPU Cooler RAIJINTEK AIDOS BLACK 48.6 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler $19.99 @ Newegg
Motherboard Supermicro MBD-X10DAL-I-O ATX Dual-CPU LGA2011-3 Motherboard $301.98 @ Newegg
Memory Crucial 16GB (1 x 16GB) Registered DDR4-2133 Memory $103.99 @ Newegg
Memory Crucial 16GB (1 x 16GB) Registered DDR4-2133 Memory $103.99 @ Newegg
Memory Crucial 16GB (1 x 16GB) Registered DDR4-2133 Memory $103.99 @ Newegg
Memory Crucial 16GB (1 x 16GB) Registered DDR4-2133 Memory $103.99 @ Newegg
Memory Crucial 16GB (1 x 16GB) Registered DDR4-2133 Memory $103.99 @ Newegg
Memory Crucial 16GB (1 x 16GB) Registered DDR4-2133 Memory $103.99 @ Newegg
Memory Crucial 16GB (1 x 16GB) Registered DDR4-2133 Memory $103.99 @ Newegg
Memory Crucial 16GB (1 x 16GB) Registered DDR4-2133 Memory $103.99 @ Newegg
Storage Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $150.88 @ OutletPC
Storage Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $82.99 @ SuperBiiz
Video Card Zotac GeForce GT 730 1GB Video Card $46.99 @ SuperBiiz
Case NZXT Source 530 ATX Full Tower Case $79.99 @ Newegg
Power Supply EVGA 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply $66.50 @ Newegg
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total (before mail-in rebates) $2416.21
Mail-in rebates -$15.00
Total $2401.21
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-25 17:19 EST-0500

This is Dual-Xeon rig. E5-2620 has stock clocks of 2.4, but will turbo up to 3.2 if properly cooled and powered. You have 2 of them, which gives you 12 cores, and 24 threads. This also gives you quad-channel 128GB DDR4 2133 RAM, with peak bandwith of 17GB/s per channel x 4 = 68GB/s. Also, the RAM is ECC (error correcting) which may or may not be important to you.

Its 400$ bump over your budget, but the performance improvements are quite "dramatic".

Other than that - I believe you should be fine with 64GB. But its up to you, really.

By the way - sorry, I misred your request, and offered the 32GB build. If you want 64GB, the build with i7-5820k should suit you well.

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